Two Cases of Long-standing Bronchial Foreign Bodies with Granulation in Children

Abstract

A one-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy had accidentally aspirated a piece of peanut and takoyaki respectively. They were found accompanied with granulation tissues several months after the episode. Until then, those foreign bodies have caused severe pulmonary complications such an pneumonia, atelectasis and emphysema. Therefore, it was important to check the past history in detail to make a correct diagnosis of the original disease. The authors reviewed 54 reported cases with bronchial granulation due to foreign bodies from Japanese literature and discussed them briefly.